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Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

Executive produced by Zoe Saldana (who will be the subject of one episode), a celebrity travels back to their hometown to pay tribute to the one person from their past (before they were famous) who helped change their life by giving them an over-the-top, heart-felt surprise.

Enter the graceful but competitive world of ballet through the eyes of executive producer, Sarah Jessica Parker. This behind-the-scenes docudrama reveals what it takes to perform on the ultimate stage, the New York City Ballet. Catch NYCB on stage at Lincoln Center.

Park Bench is a new kind of "talking show" straight from the mind of born and bred New Yorker and host, Steve Buscemi.

Go behind the scenes with some of the biggest digital celebrities to see what life is like when the blogging and tweeting stops.

A National Retail Federation survey found between six and ten percent of gift cards go unused -- adding up to an astonishing $41 billion since 2005.

The survey estimates 80 percent of shoppers will purchase a gift card this holiday season -- and the average shopper will buy one hundred and fifty five dollars worth.

So -- if you’re not among the 58% who asked for a gift card for Christmas -- what can you do with it? Here’s Forbes:

“Hate Applebee’s but received a gift card for it this Christmas? Just because you were given a gift card doesn’t mean you have to spend it at the store for which it is valid. A secondary market exists, where you can sell your gift card for a large portion of its face value. Plastic Jungle pays 88.2% of face value for Starbucks cards, 85.05% of Barnes & Noble card...”

You can even invest it! Investment site GoalMine.com says it will offer 150 percent value on the first fifty dollars on your card.

Now, all these unused cards must be a cash cow for retailers. Well, maybe not so much. CNBC explains.

“Because gift cards are accounted for as unearned revenue by retailers, the value cannot be fully recognized as income until consumers use the card. Meaning the forgetful or uninterested consumers can actually cost retailers billions. That’s somewhat contrary to belief but it’s just the way the accounting rules work under GAAP.”

So how does that work exactly? The Wall Street Journal reports -- the SEC allows companies to count unused gift-card funds as revenue once they can reasonably say the card won’t be redeemed. But not all states allow it.

“They demand that companies give the money to the state after a certain period of time to add to unclaimed-funds accounts. States claim this is a way to reunite consumers with their unspent money, but practically it’s a way for cash-strapped governments to give themselves more liquid funds.”

The Journal notes -- for example -- in 2008, the state of New York collected almost ten million dollars in unredeemed cards, but only reunited owners with a little over two thousand.

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